Improvement in bee-hives



S WALTON. Bee-Hive.

Patented May-21, I878.

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N.FE\'ERS, PNDI'O-LTI'HOGRAPHER, WASHXNGTQN, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE S. WALTON, OF ALLEYTON, TEXAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 204,115, dated May 21,1878; application filed December 29, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. WALTON, of Alleyton, in the county ofColorado and State of Texas, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Bee-Hives; and I do hereby declare that the following isafull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a vertical section of mybee-hive, and Fig. 2 is a front view of the same.

This invention relates to that class of beehives or bee-houses having aseries of compartments and the novelty consists in certain improvementsin a bee-house, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and pointedout in the claim.

The annexed drawing, to which reference is made, fully illustrates myinvention.

A represents the bee-house, made of any suitable dimensions and providedat the back with a door, B. The interior of the bee-house is provided onone or more sides with aseries of compartments, 0, (not fully shown inthe drawings,) each having its own door 0. Each compartment is intendedfor one colony of bees, and contains a brood-chamber, D, and a series ofhoney-boxes, E E, arranged on top thereof.

The brood-chambers D D are elevated above the floor of the bee-house, asshown, and rest upon cleats a. a inserted in or fastened to thepartitions forming the compartments. The honey-boxes E also rest uponsimilar cleats, so that they can be easily drawn out when required.

There are suitable passages between the brood-chamber and honey-boxes ineach compartment for each colony, and also apassage, b, in thepartitions dividing the compartments to form communication between thecolonies.

The box or brood-chamber D is drawn out and the colony placed therein inthe usual manner; and, if it is intended to start from one colony, placethe same near the center of the bee-house and let them multiply eachway. If it is intended to put in more than one colony, the passages 11,communioatin g with the compartments, are closed.

dd are thebee-entrances,oommunicatingwith the boxes or brood-chambers D.Below the bee-entrances is a slide, G, to be drawn out when necessary toclean out the trash deposited by the bees in the debris-chamber w. Thisslide may be .used from the inside of the beehouse if the outer wall ismade of brick.

At the bottom of the bee-house is a door, H, which is designed to beleft open as soon as the bees have learned the way into the hive, andthen disclosing an opening which is to decoy the miller into the room,and from thence to one or more windows, I, in the upper part of theroom. These windows may be arranged in any suit-able manner, so as to beopened to admit the passage of the air.

The roof J may be made of any shape dc sired.

The walls of the bee-house are intended to be made double to protect thebees from heat and cold.

The bee-entrances d stop between the two walls, thus forming a trap forthe miller; and in addition the door H is left open, which communicateswith the main room.

When the millers once enter the room they ascend to the windows I andthere remain, if closed, until they expire. If the windows are open theyfly out and repeat the operation, vainly seeking to find the bees.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a bee-hive or bee-house, a slide, G, in combination with thedebris-chamber w, for the purposes explained.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE SLAUGHTER WALTON.

Witnesses:

W. D. DUNLAVY, H. KEDING.

